ASSIGIGNEMNTS #2 DUE BY 15 hrs

a) 

Lip service without demonstrable or quantifiable progress

b) 

Charitable models which essentialize women and girls

c) 

Well intentioned policies which undermine gender status in practice

d) 

The recognition of positionality and privilege inherent in development policies

e) 

Complete disregard for objective gender issues

a) 

Welfare approach

b) 

Women in development

c) 

Women and development

d) 

First-wave feminism

e) 

Suffragette movement

a) 

To use tax incentives for smaller families

b) 

To draft legislation such as China’s two child policy

c) 

To link small family size as a paternal issue

d) 

To include family planning campaigns in the public school system

e) 

To treat women as the focus of social control of fertility

a) 

That gender inequality in political office leads to lower GDP

b) 

That female education would create pushback from traditional sources of authority

c) 

That women would automatically benefit from modernization policies

d) 

That gender equality should be a mandatory evaluation for development projects

e) 

That women could utilize foreign interest to overcome patriarchy 

a) 

The demand for gender equity in all internationally funded development projects

b) 

The call for quantifiable data on women’s access to resources, training, and political influence

c) 

The search for objective and gender neutral policy processes

d) 

The recognition that gender issues concern both men and women in development projects

e) 

The questioning of motivation in global institutions concerning development objectives

a) 

Increased ratio of doctors to population

b) 

Access to safe and effective contraception

c) 

Abstinence as a government policy

d) 

Incentives for smaller families

e) 

Decreased stigmatization due to unwanted pregnancies

a) 

They proposed women-only development projects.

b) 

They sought funding to increase gender parity in developing states.

c) 

They established safe zones for women in developing countries.

d) 

They linked adverse development outcomes to the patriarchal nature of traditional societies.

e) 

They sought grassroots solutions to gender problems.

a) 

A concern for population control 

b) 

A search for inclusivity in development proposals

c) 

A focus on women’s knowledge, work, goals, and responsibilities

d) 

A recognition that patriarchy is more prevalent in developing societies

e) 

A call to reflect on quantifiable measurements for gender questions

a) 

Better access to school, enhanced skills, improved livelihoods and greater protection.

b) 

Improved health, enhanced skills, improved livelihoods and greater protection.

c) 

Better access to school, enhanced skills, improved health and greater protection

d) 

Better access to school, better health, improved livelihoods and greater protection

a) 

Deconstructing patriarchies in the Global South

b) 

Tracing the role of institutional knowledge in the gender practices

c) 

Recovering lost practices of both genders

d) 

Establishing an ecology of knowledges

e) 

Using NGOs to shelter local feminist movements

a) 

Gender awareness, opportunity, and balancing

b) 

Gender neutrality, objectiveness, and knowledge

c) 

Gender privilege, intersectionality, and positionality

d) 

Gender equality, empowerment, and transformation

e) 

Gender subjectivity, modernization, and alignment 

a) 

Masculine norms of “success” and the obstacles of achieving them in a globalized world

b) 

Traditional systems of patriarchy and the structural constraints placed on male leaders

c) 

Western norms being adopted by male leaders and their coercive influence on society

d) 

Toxic femininity and its undermining of traditional prerogatives

e) 

The privileging of economic norms over traditional sources of authority 

a) 

To understand the social relationships that support and reproduce gender inequality

b) 

To establish education programs for victims of gender violence

c) 

To ensure over a million girls pledge to finish primary school before marriage

d) 

To encourage male authority figures to champion female political participation

e) 

To undermine patriarchy through education

a) 

To reduce women to simplistic defining characteristics

b) 

To make women the most pressing issue

c) 

To victimize women

d) 

To enhance the capacity for women to self-develop

a) 

The Conference on Domestic Violence Against Women

b) 

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

c) 

The Center for Research on the Disadvantages Applied to Women

d) 

The Conference on Economic Development and Women

e) 

The Convention on Ecology, Development, and Women

a) 

Girl Power

b) 

The Girl Effect

c) 

Empowering through Sport

d) 

Nike Women Lead

e) 

Pay it Forward

a) 

Implementing targeted policies to empower gender equality

b) 

Supporting female education

c) 

Reflecting critically on the systemic inequalities that disproportionately affect women and girls

d) 

Building grassroots organizations to counter overarching patriarchal structures

e) 

Incorporating both male and female voices in countering systemic violence against women

a) 

Developmental

b) 

Normative

c) 

Implementation

d) 

Monitoring

e) 

All of the gaps are discussed in the article

a) 

Modernization theory

b) 

Marxist theory

c) 

Dependency theory

d) 

Conflict theory

a) 

Progressive process of human development, a movement towards refinement and order and away from barbarism and savagery

b) 

Sense of unity in a community

c) 

Human beings and the cultivation of the mind

d) 

Cultivation or the nurturing of animals or crops

a) 

An innate sense of spatial differentiation

b) 

The urge to live in groups larger than the family unit

c) 

An appreciation for artistic works

d) 

The ability to us tools to make work easier

e) 

The possession of fully developed language skills

a) 

Can acquire an elitist and evolutionary connotation

b) 

Suggests that culture is the property of a few people while the majority lack culture

c) 

Culture can be attained only at a certain stage of development

d) 

All of the above

a) 

The insubstantial role of ideas in shaping culture

b) 

The mixed motivations of human behaviour

c) 

The influence of material forces

d) 

The problem of determining causal relationships

e) 

The dominant role of economics in culture studies

a) 

Inequality

b) 

Insufficient scientific and technological resources

c) 

“Backward” mentalities of “traditional” societies

d) 

Capitalist exploitation

e) 

Poverty

a) 

Communism and capitalism

b) 

Materialism and idealism

c) 

Materialism and symbolism

d) 

Conservatism and liberalism

e) 

Realism and idealism 

a) 

Lack of modernization

b) 

Overemphasis on group values

c) 

Traditional values

d) 

Corruption

e) 

Democracy

a) 

Cultural elites

b) 

Symbolic objects

c) 

Traditions

d) 

Homogeneity

e) 

Socio-economics

a) 

Predatory corporatism

b) 

Planned obsolescence

c) 

Poor planning cycles

d) 

Green technology

e) 

Postmodern sensibilities 

a) 

Egocentric

b) 

Relativist

c) 

Hegemonic

d) 

Eurocentric

e) 

Dead

a) 

They are counter-productive for the marginalized and oppressed for whom they claim to speak.

b) 

They view culture as a homogeneous and essentialist whole.

c) 

They adopt an uncritical attitude toward tradition.

d) 

They are culturally relativistic.

e) 

They are overly economistic and fail to consider non-material aspects of culture.

a) 

Elitism

b) 

Domination

c) 

Underrepresentation

d) 

Objectivity

e) 

Repression 

a) 

Objective truth

b) 

Relations of power

c) 

Economic exploitation

d) 

Regional affinities

e) 

Traditionalism 

a) 

The creation of a false dichotomy between the future and the past

b) 

The lack of causal analysis

c) 

An obsessive focus on colonialism and Eurocentrism

d) 

The inability to account for cultural diffusion

e) 

An over emphasis on socio-economics 

a) 

They are generally critical of cultural relativism.

b) 

They consider culture to be the foundation of development.

c) 

They are prone to slide into cultural relativism.

d) 

They embrace universalism.

e) 

They consider cultural practices to be either “good” or “bad.”